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From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: pipes within a 'find' command
Message-ID: <159@luke.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 11:51:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.159
Posted: Fri Oct  3 11:51:45 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 13:35:55 EDT
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Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
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Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
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Keywords: unix pipe find exec

In article <686@hplabsc.UUCP> quan@hplabsc.UUCP (Suu Quan) writes:
>This command did not work :
>find /usr/spool/eroff -print -exec tbl {} | eqn | eroff -ms \; -exec rm {} \;
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     The underlined pipe is to properly print a file.
>
>Intention : scan all the files in directory /usr/spool/eroff
>            print the file
>            remove the file.
>
>Problem : as is, the command does not work.

How about my personal favorite: xargs...

	find /usr/spool/eroff -print | tee /tmp/jnk$$ |
		xargs -i@ tbl @ | eqn | eroff -ms ; rm -f `cat /tmp/jnk$$` /tmp/jnk$$

This is at least as fast as your find would have been using exec, and
also provides more flexibility.
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